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Yahoo! News: Most Viewed- Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival
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(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:07:39 GMT) AP - The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle.
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- Pakistanis suspect landowners of diverting floods
(AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:21:44 GMT) AP - As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis.
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- Wrigley rooftops hurting as Cubs, economy struggle
(AP)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:35:24 GMT) AP - The crowded rooftop bleachers overlooking Wrigley Field stand as proof that no matter how bad the Chicago Cubs played, the ballpark was simply not big enough to hold everyone who wanted to see them play.
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- ABC News president David Westin steps down
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(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:40:12 GMT) AP - ABC News President David Westin, the longest-reigning network news division chief, with more than 13 tumultuous years on the job, told his staff Monday that he is resigning and will leave by the end of the year.
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- London gridlock as transport strike brings chaos
(Reuters)
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:07:46 GMT)Reuters - Millions of commuters across the British capital struggled to get to work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on London's underground rail system crippled much of the network, hurting the city's convalescent economy. Passengers took to bikes, buses, walked, or made use of extra boat services on the River Thames that runs through the city in a bid to beat the stoppage, called in protest at 800 job cuts driven by austerity measures. ... Read
- US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds
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(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:16:02 GMT) AP - More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II.
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- Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon
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(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:09:48 GMT) AP - A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.
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- Erratic global weather threatens food security
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(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:30:52 GMT) AFP - The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said.
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- Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger
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(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:29:09 GMT) AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
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- Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule
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(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:14 GMT) AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party on Tuesday, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge.
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- Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3
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(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:39:29 GMT) AP - A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.
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